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Title: Madame Zero

Author: Sarah Hall

Narrator: Charlotte Strevens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-18

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Sarah Hall is an exquisite chronicler of landscapes - rural, industrial, psychological - and these haunting stories reveal a writer at the peak of her powers. Rich in the mythic symbolism of wilderness and wasteland, these tales blur the natural and urban, mundane and surreal, human and animal.

Written in Hall's lyrical prose, this uncannily disturbing collection glitters with poetic and erotic imagery. Marked by a fascination with the intimacy of nature - and the nature of intimacy - Madame Zero is a stunning new collection from an author twice nominated for the Booker Prize.

Members Reviews:

a strange, thoughtful, and wonderfully written collection

!!! warning: a couple of stories in this work, specifically case study 2, later his ghost, and evie have implied rape/csa or are sexually violent, and theatre 6 is a gorey depiction of failed pregnancy.

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i really enjoyed this. if you've ever read hall's previous short story collection, 'the beautiful indifference', a lot of the work presented in 'madame zero' feels a lot like the last story, 'vuotjärvi'--kind of haunting and foreboding. it's not quite as sexual and erotic as her previous collection (except that last story, which was...whew!). more of the stories here are varied in subject; where 'the beautiful indifference' revolved around the loneliness in mostly women's love lives, 'madame zero' only has two stories that use that as the focus.

obviously, hall's writing is great. it isn't very different from the way she usually writes and she's one of the few writers that have such a wonderful and fluid style.

i'd say that a lot of the stories in 'madame zero' are unsettling and strange. i don't want to give away too much, but a lot of the stories seem to be observations or speculations on the human condition (questions about what makes us human, how we endure or adapt in the face of adversity, how we acknowledge or react to death). which is great! because i have always had a lot of difficulty reading hall's full-length novels (her writing is amazing, but the stories aren't very eventful). there were two stories featured that i didn't understand (theatre no. 6 and wilderness, the latter was just...insufferable to say the least), which is to be expected as this collection seems to be more experiential than a lot of hall's previous work, but the other stories were wonderful and memorable. i'd recommend it to anyone who is looking to read something different!

"Hallâs stories are dark and strange, sensual and finely worded, literary without being pretentious."

MADAME ZERO, a collection of nine short stories, is the latest from Man Booker Prize-nominated author Sarah Hall. The slenderness of the physical book belies its emotional heft and the vastly compelling world it contains. Hall masterfully controls the emotions of her characters in these stories, verging on surreal. The book is framed by two tales of transformation and filled with stories of realization and tribulation.

âMrs. Foxâ opens MADAME ZERO. Sophia, a previously unremarkable wife, inexplicably turns into a vixen and raises a litter of kits in the forest near where she lived with her husband.

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Title: The Biker: Romantic Suspense Short Story

Author: Jolie Day

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-22-17

Publisher: Jolie Day

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Tough. Dominant. Damn sexy. And knows it, too.

Marc Kelly is a biker on the run from his past and wants a new beginning. But his old buddies from the biker gang still have a score to settle with him. Marc can deal with pretty much anything, except a woman who gets under his skin.

When his Harley breaks down in front of her house, Lauren Stanton does just that.

Cool. Collected. Vulnerable.

Lauren has a past that she wants to forget, too. She's found a new home in a small town on Narragansett Bay, where she feels safe, and free from her past mistakes.

When Lauren meets Marc, they're immediately drawn to each other. But Lauren is afraid of the mysterious man with dark green eyes.

When trouble from Lauren's past reappears, will their relationship be able to withstand the heat? Or will they walk away from their chance of love and redemption?

The Biker is a romantic suspense short story. Contains mature themes and language. No cliffhanger. No cheating. HEA.

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Title: First Death

Subtitle: A Seventeen Series Short Story #1

Author: AD Starrling

Narrator: Michael Bower

Format: Unabridged

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-17

Publisher: AD STARRLING

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Discover where it all started...

Carpathian Mountains, Moldavia, 1570. Ten-year-old Lucas' life is a simple but happy one. All that changes when the Hunters finally track down his whereabouts.

Forced to bear witness to horrific scenes that forever shatter his innocence, he discovers the shocking secret behind his less than ordinary existence. What follows is a fight for survival that will define the nature of a boy bound to an incredible destiny whose origins have been lost to the tides of time.

First Death is a short story set in AD Starrling's best-selling supernatural thriller series Seventeen. If you like high-octane adventures that combine science and fantasy, then you'll love the world of Seventeen.

Grab this riveting short story and start the epic series today!

Members Reviews:

Love the seventeen series

The prequel novella of Lucas's childhood. The story of him witnessing the murder of his parents over and over as the killers wiped out their remaining lives of their seventeen deaths and his trek to escape and live to fight another day and his own justice.

Too short

This was a prequel to Soul Meaning and told the story of Lucas Soul's first death. Good but way too short. This could be a novel or a novella itself.

Five Stars

This one is great also

Intriguing beginnings

Set in 1570 in the wooded mountains of Moldavia, Lucas and his parents have a simple cabin home in the woods. Itâs winter and few travelers are about. That is, until Alexander and his men show up on their doorstep. Lucasâs simple, happy world is about to be shattered.

Alexander kills Lucasâs father first, and then his mother Katarina. To Lucasâs surprise, they rise to fight again. Alas, they are killed again. This cycle continues again and again while Lucas is forced to watch. Lucas, the poor lad, goes into some sort of shock over it all.

Then Lucas must suffer his first death. Things donât go as planned for Alexander and his men. I really liked the crow imagery and the ashes left behind. Thereâs definitely something very intriguing about this story. The tale and danger doesnât stop with Lucasâs first death. Nope. Afterwards, he has to figure out his next move, how to survive the winter, who his allies (or parentâs allies) are. I was impressed by how much was packed into this short story.

I received a free copy of this audiobook.

Narration: Michael Bower was good, especially with the accents. He also did a good job imbuing emotion into the characters. Alexander sounded villainous through and through.

A sneak peak into Lucas' origins and first death.

If you follow the blog, you will know that I discovered A.D. Starrling last year and fell in love with her brainy writing style. Normally I am not a fan of short stories or reading prequels after I have started the series... but I have enjoyed Starrling's snippets and peeks into the Seventeen world.

First Death gives us a glimpse into the origins of Lucas Soul, the hero of Soul Meaning. We finally get to meet Lucas' father and mother, and see the love they shared for each other and their son. The Soul parents were starcrossed lovers, each from a different sect of the supernatural race of immortals that is featured in this series. Their relationship and son, who is viewed as an abomination, earns them a death warrant, so they have been hiding out in the Alaskan (I think?) wilderness.

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Title: The Warrior Monk

Subtitle: A Seventeen Series Short Story #4

Author: AD Starrling

Narrator: Michael Bower

Format: Unabridged

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-17

Publisher: AD STARRLING

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

The Order of the Three Spears. Founded at the turn of the ninth century by the Lotus-Born Second Buddha and inspired by the most powerful immortal warrior who ever lived, this secret Buddhist society has kept the existence of immortals hidden from ordinary humans and maintained peace between the races for 1,200 years.

When news of an ancient enemy reaches them from the West, the Order sends its best and most unorthodox field agent to investigate.

In the course of his mission, Brother Yonten crosses paths with an immortal operative also tasked with hunting the Order's deadly opponent. The astounding truths he uncovers will determine not just his own fate but that of the immortal societies and the entire human race.

The Warrior Monk is a short story set in AD Starrling's best-selling supernatural thriller series Seventeen. If you like high-octane adventures that combine science and fantasy, then you'll love the world of Seventeen.

Grab this fascinating short story and continue the epic series today!

Members Reviews:

Review of The Warrior Monk

Yonten really captured my heart in King's Crusade with all his laughter, seriousness, and craziness. In this book you get a glimpse of him in the beginning before things go awry. He is a fierce protector with a crazy humor knowing what he should do and what his heart tells him to even if it gets him in deep water with the Abbot. I always love when a writer gives a glimpse into a characters past of how they came to be and A.D. Starrling did an amazing job here.

Another good book

The Monk tell you about the guy in the first series. Great

awesome short

This short story is told through the eyes of Brother Yonton a Buddhist Monk, even though his ways most of the time cause his Abbott much grief. But this time while tracking down leads to another problem the monks are working on he comes across someone much more important and sacred to him and his brothers and what is worse is she seems to tied in somehow to the original problem he was working on as she keeps showing up in all the same places.

This was one action packed short story, it never stopped. I loved Yonton from the start and I hope we see more of his brother in the future. This is another great short story to help the main novels along, a glimpse into the lives of other characters, a tangent if you will. But all the same awesome. Narrator of the audiobook, which should not be missed, Michael Bower is great, he puts you right on the streets watching Yonton and Alexa chase each other with matching skills bounding from building to building, watching the two fight back to back with nothing more than a look to know that they are on the same side. Mr. Bower's is really that good, don't miss out.

One of my favorite characters of the series.

This book made me nostalgic and I really want to go back and read Warrior now. You see, Yontin, our warrior monk, has been one of my very favorite characters of this series and I miss him! So it was great to spend some time getting to know him again.

This is a short story - only about 45 minutes in audio - the perfect length to listen to at lunch or while you are on the treadmill getting your steps in. This quickie gives us some of Yontin's history... how he ended up at the monastery, what his calling was, and who else was at the monastery giving him orders.

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Title: Antonio and the Ceiling Fan

Subtitle: A New Mexican Christmas Story

Author: Dan Otero

Narrator: Sabina Zuniga-Varela

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-13-17

Publisher: New Mexico Digital

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Antonio and the Ceiling Fan: A New Mexican Christmas Story is a short story set in rural northern New Mexico. It is a holiday story of magical realism, focusing on a teenager coming to realize the power of his family, his mother, and the mortality that we all face. He also has a talking ceiling fan.

Disclaimer: This short story contains a fair amount of Spanish dialog, most of which is described in context.

Members Reviews:

A charming, heartwarming, quirky story with...

a talking ceiling fan!

The eBook was free on KU but Im glad I got the audio, because its fantastic. Its a full cast and done like an old-time radio program with sound effects, which was fun. The main audio narrator was amazingshe also does the mothers voice.

Some of the dialogue is in Spanish but its mostly in context so you get the point. My rudimentary Spanish filled in most of the rest, and what I didnt catch (since I had the eBook) I Googled. Personally, I liked the Spanishit felt authentic to the story and the region.

Great story for anyone, anywhere but even more fun if you live in New MexicoI like to read/listen to things set in the area I live.

Sweet

Sweet and tender, and just long enough. Well written and well read, with a great voice cast.

A delightful tale with multiple facets

The fact that the ceiling fan turned out to be a character in itself (of sorts) was actually really clever and symbolically relatable! At the begining, I thought the tale would be about the internal dialog the fan represented, but turns out the story was about something compleatly different in the end. It was a wonderful turn of events and a great ending that reminds us to continue being grateful for what we have. The narration with multiple voices, accents, and spanish snippets really gave this tale an authentic New Mexico feel! Loved it :)

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Title: Out of a Job, Not Earning a Dime

Subtitle: A Short Story

Author: Dusty Richards

Narrator: John Tambascio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-17

Publisher: Oghma Creative Media

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Unemployed ranch hand Jim Dailey only wants some matches when he rides up to a store in Willow Grove, Kansas, on a dusty, fateful summer day. What he gets when he steps inside, though, is anything but. Faced with two bloodthirsty outlaws and no other choice, Dailey pulls his six-shooter... and sets himself on a long and twisted path of triumph and tragedy.

Join legendary author Dusty Richards as he spins a classic western tale of love, revenge, and redemption in Out of a Job, Not Earning a Dime.

Members Reviews:

HIS ENDLESS LOVE

Dusty Richards another great appreciative western writer. A story of how cheap life was in the growing west. Blood was thicker than water and it didn't matter who was in the wrong, somebody dies as the result.

A man loses his bride to be to a nere-do-well, who murders her on their wedding day, when she took the bullet meant for him. Now he's on the trail of this murdering cowboy with the help/company of Hannah, a Choctaw, whose looking for sister, who went with no count murder man.

Love comes in many forms and stages, you just never know..This is what happens in this adventure..lots action and results..

I hope you'll get the chance to ENJOY this story, it's fast moving...you know rapido.

Quick read.

I liked the short story. I didn't realize it was a short story until after I purchased it and how quickly it moved along. Could have been a good novel. However, as with so many of the ebooks, editing seems to be forgotten. The first page introduces the main character as Jim. On the second page he somehow becomes John. John-Jim shoots two men and the sheriff tells some men to take the bodies to the undertaker and two paragraphs later one is taken to the doctor. I really like Dusty Richards novels, but this is not something I expect from him. I hope this is not becoming the norm for his stories. I just purchased a Brandiron story and hope it is better written and edited. I would have given four stars were it not for so many mistakes.

Great read, any book by Dusty Richard's is always ...

Great read,any book by Dusty Richard's is always a great read

Five Stars

Great as always. Keep them coming. Thanks.

Four Stars

Awesome writer!

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Title: Debriefing

Subtitle: Collected Stories

Author: Benjamin Taylor, Susan Sontag

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-17

Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Debriefing collects all of Susan Sontag's shorter fiction, a form she turned to intermittently throughout her writing life. The book ranges from allegory to parable to autobiography and shows her wrestling with problems not assimilable to the essay, her more customary mode. Here she catches fragments of life on the fly, dramatizes her private griefs and fears, lets characters take her where they will. The result is a collection of remarkable brilliance, versatility, and charm. Sontag's work has typically required time for people to catch up to it. These challenging works of literary art - made more urgent by the passage of years - await a new generation of listeners. This is an invaluable record of the creative output of one of the most inquisitive and analytical thinkers of the 20th century at the height of her power.

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Title: A Spot of Folly

Subtitle: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem

Author: Ruth Rendell

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble, Toby Longworth, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Gemma Whelan, Hattie Morahan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-17

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Previously uncollected and unpublished: new short stories from a master of psychological suspense.

New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness.

Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are 10 (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time.

In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to disaster. And a wealthy man finds there is more to his wife's kidnapping than meets the eye.

Atmospheric, gripping and never predictable, this is Ruth Rendell at her inimitable best.

The stories are: 'Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror'; 'A Spot of Folly'; 'The Price of Joy'; 'The Irony of Hate'; 'Digby's Wives'; 'The Haunting of Shawley Rectory'; 'A Drop Too Much'; 'The Thief'; 'The Long Corridor of Time'; 'In the Time of his Prosperity'; and 'Trebuchet'.

Members Reviews:

Good, but not vintage Rendell

Lovely to have a few final stories from Ruth Rendell but they were no up there with her best works. A couple of them were slow and repetitive and the ghost stories rather weak.

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Title: A Very French Christmas

Subtitle: The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

Author: Guy de Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, Irène Némirovsky, Dominique Fabre, Jean-Philippe Blondel

Narrator: Jean Brassard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A continuation of the popular Very Christmas Series, this collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant collection featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed 20th-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel.

With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers, oysters, crayfish, ham, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine, this collection encapsulates the holiday spirit. This is Christmas à la française - delicious, intense, and unexpected, proving that nobody does Christmas like the French.

Members Reviews:

Neat French Christmas stories

Experience Christmas as you have never before, with this unique, very French short story collection.

As you would know if you are familiar with French literature in general, the French cannot be described as the most optimistic people in the world. If thereâs a yes, thereâs always a BUT shortly after. This reflects as well in this collection of Christmas short stories, which makes it quite unique! If you want something different for your next Christmas, ask Santa to bring you A Very French Christmas: The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time.

Fourteen stories are included in this short collection, 11 written in the 2nd half of the 19th century, with names as famous as Alphonse Daudet and Guy de Maupassant, the French father of the short story if thereâs any, one story by Irène Némirovsky (written in 1932), and two composed this year, by Dominique Fabre, and Jean-Philippe Blondel, an author already reviewed here.

You will find the usual cold and snow (pre-global warming style) and orphans. On top of that, most stories are quite quirky, and even a few uplifting, with Jean-Baptiste Godefroy (in The Lost Child) and Lucien (in The Louis dâOr) experiencing a conversion experience à la Scrooge on Christmas Eve. Most stories however, are rather on the sad side, that time of the year being a time of great reckoning, of reminiscing, not always a happy thing, and of connection with the other world, even of passing (in Salvette and Bernadou).

The Lost Child is my favorite, with a satisfying ending and a very quirky beginning.

I also enjoyed cute illustrations at the top of each story (all gathered together on the book cover) and on the last pages. The book contains also a few lines of biography for each of the authors quoted.

modern stories like the first one as well as one by Dominique ...

I think I signed on to read and review the book as more of a curiosity because I wanted to know how French christmas was different than the stereotypical portrayal of American and Dickensian christmas.

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Título: Historias Cortas [Short Stories]

Subtitular: Relatos Para Reflexionar [Tales for Reflection]

Autor: Dylan Green

Narrador: Alfonso Sales

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 3 hrs and 4 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 10-04-17

Editor: Dylan Green

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 4 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Resumen del editor:

Colección de relatos de mediana extensión con moraleja o reflexión final que ayudara al lector/a a mejorar como persona en diversos aspectos.

78 relatos inéditos + 31.000 lectores online (Puesto #80 en la categoría Historia Corta en Wattpad)

Libro ganador del concurso EcAward

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.